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I have a few international covers in my WWII collection, from varous
countries, which were not censored. In some cases, de facto censorship was carried out via currency export control inspections, but other covers show no evidence of even cursory censorship. I have two British covers, for example: one posted from London to the U.S. on September 2, 1940, was not censored. Another, posted two days later from Dublin to the U.S., was censored. Does anyone know whether censorship was supposed to be universally applied, and some letters were missed, or whether some sort of selective "profiling" was used. There's the possibility, I suppose, that censorship was random. Bob Ingraham Vancouver |
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On Jul 31, 10:10*am, Bobstamp wrote:
I have a few international covers in my WWII collection, from varous countries, which were not censored. In some cases, de facto censorship was carried out via currency export control inspections, but other covers show no evidence of even cursory censorship. I have two British covers, for example: one posted from London to the U.S. on September 2, 1940, was not censored. Another, posted two days later from Dublin to the U.S., was censored. Does anyone know whether censorship was supposed to be universally applied, and some letters were missed, or whether some sort of selective "profiling" was used. There's the possibility, I suppose, that censorship was random. Bob Ingraham Vancouver Bob: That is interesting, considering that both Ireland and the USA were NEUTRAL in 1940. Blair |
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Bob, there were German spies in Ireland and the USA, hence the censorship of
mail to both countries. Tony "Blair (TC)" wrote in message ... On Jul 31, 10:10 am, Bobstamp wrote: I have a few international covers in my WWII collection, from varous countries, which were not censored. In some cases, de facto censorship was carried out via currency export control inspections, but other covers show no evidence of even cursory censorship. I have two British covers, for example: one posted from London to the U.S. on September 2, 1940, was not censored. Another, posted two days later from Dublin to the U.S., was censored. Does anyone know whether censorship was supposed to be universally applied, and some letters were missed, or whether some sort of selective "profiling" was used. There's the possibility, I suppose, that censorship was random. Bob Ingraham Vancouver Bob: That is interesting, considering that both Ireland and the USA were NEUTRAL in 1940. Blair |
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Well, OK, red face here in Vancouver. I intended to type "Belfast,"
but my fingers typed "Dublin". Yeesh! So, the original question still stands. Why were some UK covers censored, and others not? However, your references to Ireland/Eire are interesting, because the Eire did indeed censor mail. I have at a few wartime covers in my collection posted from Eire and censored by both the Irish and the British. One of them is from a Canadian internee in an Irish internment camp. (Being interned in Eire amounted to a holiday. Internees, both German and Allied, had free access to alcohol within the camps, and only had to sign a parole to leave camp for such pleasant activities as pubbing, dancing, dinners with Irish families, golfing, etc. Early in the war there was even an agreement between the Allies and Eire that if any internees escaped, they would be returned. — Grounded in Ei The Story of Two RAF Fliers Interned in Ireland during World War II, by Ralph Keefer. My apologies for inadvertently misleading you. Bob |
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